Vinegar Joe

Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell awarding a Silver Star medal to a Chinese soldier in the field, about six miles south of Laban, northern Burma, 28 Apr 1944 

Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell speaking to combat engineers, Myitkyina, Burma, 18 Jul 1944- ww2dbase

Old enough to cash his social security, he decided instead to pick up his carbine and dole it out.

Railway station in ruins, Saint-Lô, France, 1944 

An American LVT equipped with flamethrower attacked a Japanese position at Peleliu, Sep 1944 

XP-80A prototype jet fighter Gray Ghost in flight, 1944-1945 

General Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell holding a roadside conference with Brigadier General Lewis Pick whose engineers were instrumental in the completion of the Burma Road, Burma, 1944. 

United States Army Signal Corps

Beautiful Navy TBF-1 Avengers at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, Sept 1943. 

US C-54 Skymaster aircraft at the Berlin-Gatow airfield, Germany, 15 Jul 1945; these aircraft brought Harry Truman and other US leaders to Berlin for the Potsdam Conference

Female members of the German military in a prisoner of war camp for women at Regensburg, Germany, 8 May 1945

F4U-1A fighters of Navy Squadron VF-17 transiting the Panama Canal on the flight deck of an Escort Carrier, circa Aug 1943. Note the unusual National Insignia on the lower surfaces of the folded wings. 

Near-finished F4U Corsair fighter at the Chance-Vought factory in Stratford, Connecticut, United States, Mar 1943 (why do the Corsairs always get the art-sy photos?)

Carrier Enterprise’s Torpedo Squadron 6 TBD-1 Devastator aircraft in flight, 1938 

WAVES Seaman 2nd Class Mary Swamberger and Seaman 2nd Class Dorothy Gasperi rolling a snowball at the Yeoman Training School, Iowa State College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States, 1944